Radio Frequency Identification

Annemarie Wegley and Emily Woesle

What is RFID?• Radio Frequency Identification

• utilizing magnetic fields o high/low frequencies

• Real time tracking

• More than just ID’so Read/Write Memoryo 2 kilobytes

• Limitless

What is RFID?

Components of RFID• Tag

o data holder/transmitter

• Interrogatoro initiate data flow

• Controllero runs software

• Softwareo Middle-ware/Application

Timeline of RFID1945- WWII interrogation signal

1973- First Radio Frequency Identification Transponder system created

1977- Transferred to public sector

1979- First placed in cows

1981- Railroads begin tagging

1982-Automatic Toll collection on highways

2000- Over 1000 patents have been submitted using RFID

2003- Wal-Mart makes announcement suppliers to have product on pallets that have

RFID chips

Today- Many companies use RFID to tag product

Applications of RFID• Asset Management

• Personnel Tracking

• Vehicle Access

• Attendance Management

• Inventory Control

Applications of RFID

• Shipping and Logistics

• Healthcare

• Retail

• Home

• Workplace

Case Study of RFIDDisney World MagicBand

• Enter theme and water parks

• Check in at Fast Pass+

entrances.

• Charge food and

merchandise purchases to

your Disney Resort hotel

room

• Unlock your Disney Resort

Hotel Room

Case Study RFIDBellagio Casino Theft RFID Chips • Anthony Carleo stole

$1.5M in chips

• face value was not their real value

• casino deactivated the worth of those chips using RFID

Future of RFID• replacing barcodes

• evolving in size and implementation

• investing in confidence of technology

• security and privacy issues to battle

Sourceshttps://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/my-magic-plus/

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/16/can-rfid-save-brick-and-mortar-retailers-after-all/

http://www.priv.gc.ca/resource/fs-fi/02_05_d_28_e.asp

http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?1336